If you want to send us a case, please include clinical information, imaging, slides and two representative blocks and post to:
Consultant Histopathologists
Cellular and Molecular Pathology Department
Institute of Orthopaedics
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Brockley Hill, Stanmore
Middlesex HA7 4LP, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 20 8909 5354
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8954 5908
Email: rno-tr.
We also provide an extensive menu of molecular tests.
We are a specialist unit for bone and soft tissue diseases with over 5000 cases per year.
Turnaround times are the % of diagnostic specimens reported within a specific time. The Royal College of Pathologists recommendation is that 90% of all biopsies are reported in <7 days and that 90% of all diagnostic specimens are reported in <10 days.
January 2020 data:
% of biopsies reported <7 days – 97%
% of all specimens reported <10 days – 97%
Total workload by month from 2007-2016
- Aneurysmal bone cyst
- Angiosarcoma
- Carcinoma metastatic to brain
- Carcinoma, metastatic
- Carcinoma, prostate
- Carcinoma, renal
- Chondroblastoma
- Chondromyxoid fibroma
- Chondrosarcoma (various grades)
- Chordoma - base of skull
- Chordoma - sacrococcygeal
- Epithelioid sarcoma
- Ewing sarcoma
- Fibromatosis
- Giant cell tumour of bone
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Liposarcoma dedifferentiated
- Liposarcoma myxoid
- Liposarcoma pleomorphic
- Melanoma metastatic
- MPNST
- Myeloma
- Myxofibrosarcoma
- Neurofibroma
- Osteoblastoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Solitary fibrous tumour
- Synovial Sarcoma
Please contact histopathology for details.
- Dr Fernanda Amary - Bone and soft tissue pathology. Molecular genetics of sarcomas.
- Professor Adrienne M Flanagan - Cell and molecular pathology of bone and soft tissue tumours and non-neoplastic musculoskeletal disorders.
- Dr Roberto Tirabosco - Soft tissue and bone pathology.